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Training emergency care skills is critical for patient safety and an essential part of medical education. Increasing demands on competences of doctors and limited training budgets necessitate new and cost-effective training methods. In the last decade, serious games have been propagated to train complex skills; they are expected to facilitate active, engaging and intrinsically motivated learning. Erasmus MC has developed a serious game to train emergency care skills, as a preparation for the faceto- face training. This ‘abcdeSIM’ game provides a realistic online emergency department environment where doctors can assess and stabilize patients in a virtual emergency department.
Research questions: show residents, after using the abcdeSIM game, better emergency care skills before f2f-training than residents who did not use the game? Are they feeling engaged with the patient cases and more motivated for the course?
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Dankbaar, M. et al. (2014). Gaming as a training tool to train cognitive skills in Emergency Care: how effective is it?. In: Schouten, B., Fedtke, S., Schijven, M., Vosmeer, M., Gekker, A. (eds) Games for Health 2014. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07141-7_3
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